Word: snarl
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...infiltration by a Soviet double agent. The task falls on the shoulders of George Smiley, typically a shrewd but atypically a paunchy and unglamorous secret agent. Moving to the offensive, Smiley assigns Jerry Westerby--dubbed "the honourable schoolboy" for his noble lineage and his bookish manner--to snarl the operations of the Soviet spy network. In usual fashion, Westerby's mission takes him to Hong Kong and Indochina, into the middle of an international narcotics ring and a KGB scheme to subvert a pack of Red Chinese politicos--and unavoidably, into a few bedrooms as well. But somewhere along...
...keep thinking I shall awake soon from a bad dream." So said a young Rumanian last week, as he watched bulldozers and mechanical shovels snarl and roar through the debris in downtown Bucharest caused by the most devastating earthquake in the country's history (TIME, March 14). Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu announced that the death toll for the country had reached 1,387; he estimated the number of wounded at 10,500, including 2,500 who were still hospitalized. The 20-second quake, which registered 7.2 on the Richter scale and was followed by 20 minutes...
...many adversaries shrill in the same vituperative key. Even lovers snarl their sweet nothings, as if they were pouring poison into each other's ears...
...stacking boxes into an arch. "My group, we used to build things--castles, huts--anything we could use. They say children who play war grow up peaceful." Peter is the agitator of the lot, an anarchist who feeds to a begging hippie shrimp that customers, as the disgusted workers snarl, "pay good money--$2.85 a pound--for." He echoes a Shavian respect for "the able-minded, able-bodied pauper," who refuses to squelch his imagination in the ranks of unskilled labor...
...runs more than 400 programs, employs 129,000 people and spends $118 billion, nearly one-third of this year's entire federal budget. To show its present snarl of red tape-and the need for reform-President Ford had a "mess chart" prepared on the health services provided by the department. The entire chart is shown on the opposite page (actual size: 4 ft. by 11 ft.). The adjoining segment is reproduced to give a closeup idea of its complexity...